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Unpublished paper, 'Report of a committee for collecting information respecting the occurrence of and the more remarkable phenomena connected with the earthquakes lately felt in the neighbourhood of Chichester' by J P [John Price] Gruggen

Reference number: AP/19/14

Date: 1835

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Gruggen shares observations on earthquakes in Chichester [England]. The first shock occurred on 18 September 1833, and the second on 13 November 1833. Includes an introductory letter from John Forbes.

Subject: Seismology

Received 8 May 1835. Read 4 June 1835. Communicated by John Forbes.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Report of a committee for collecting information respecting the occurrence of, and the more remarkable phænomena connected with, the earthquakes lately felt in the neighbourhood of Chichester. By J. P. Gruggen, Esq. Communicated in a letter to P. M. Roget, M. D., Sec. R. S'.

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AP/19/14
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1835
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9 pages
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Unpublished paper, 'Report of a committee for collecting information respecting the occurrence of and the more remarkable phenomena connected with the earthquakes lately felt in the neighbourhood of Chichester' by J P [John Price] Gruggen, 1835, AP/19/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_19_14/unpublished-paper-report-of-a-committee-for-collecting-information-respecting-the-occurrence-of-and-the-more-remarkable-phenomena-connected-with-the-earthquakes-lately-felt-in-the-neighbourhood-of-chichester-by-j-p-john-price-gruggen, accessed on 09 December 2025

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